Margaret C Lo

Margaret C Lo, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Professor, Associate Residency Program Director

Department: Department of Internal Medicine
Business Phone: (352) 265-0239
Business Email: lomc@ufl.edu

About Margaret C Lo

Margaret Lo, MD, is a professor for the division of general internal medicine and a physician at UF Health Internal Medicine – Medical Plaza. Dr. Lo earned her medical degree from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. She completed a residency at the University of Florida.

Accomplishments

Exceptional Mentor Award
2018 · American Medical Women’s Association
Member
2018 · Golden Humanism Honor Society
Frederick L. Brancati Mentorship and Leadership Award
2017 · SGIM/ACLGIM
Member
2016 · Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Attendee
2015 · AAMC Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development & Leadership
Excellence in Mentoring Award
2014 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Member
2014 · University of Florida Society of Teaching Scholars
Clinician Educator of the Year Award
2013 · Southern Region of SGIM
Patients First Award
2013 · University of Florida Health Hospital
Exemplary Teacher Award
2012-2018 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Customer Service Is Key Award
2011 · University of Florida Health Hospital
Excellence in Teaching Medical Students
2011 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Member
2011 · Fellowship of American College of Physicians
Exemplary Teacher Award
2010 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Excellence in Ambulatory Care
2005 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Excellence in Teaching Medical Students
2005 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Excellence in Teaching Medical Students
2003 · University of Florida College of Medicine

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2018
MDC7200 Medicine Clerkship
2018
MDC7203 Senior Medicine Clerk

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • General Internal Medicine
Areas of Interest
  • Diabetes
  • High blood pressure – adults
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Obesity

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0002-8432-2634

Publications

2023
Advancing Palliative Care Systematically Using Education Through a Grassroots Coalition.
Palliative medicine reports. 4(1):89-91 [DOI] 10.1089/pmr.2022.0055. [PMID] 36969739.
2022
Palliative Care Education: The Past, Present, and Future.
Journal of palliative medicine. 25(1):6-8 [DOI] 10.1089/jpm.2021.0564. [PMID] 34978907.
2022
When Barium Goes Down the Wrong Pipe: a Severe Case of Aspiration Pneumonitis.
Journal of general internal medicine. 37(5) [DOI] 10.1007/s11606-021-07342-y. [PMID] 35048295.
2021
Common Cause and Common Purpose: Strategies to Increase Engagement in Faculty Development Activities
The American Journal of Medicine. 134(5):691-698 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.01.002.
2021
Improving burnout and well-being among medicine residents: Impact of a grassroots intervention compared to a formal program curriculum.
Journal of education and health promotion. 10 [DOI] 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1378_20. [PMID] 34485547.
2021
Rationale and design of the Women’s Ischemia Trial to Reduce Events in Nonobstructive CAD (WARRIOR) trial.
American heart journal. 237:90-103 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ahj.2021.03.011. [PMID] 33745898.
2020
Clinician-Educator Training and Its Impact on Career Success: a Mixed Methods Study.
Journal of general internal medicine. 35(12):3492-3500 [DOI] 10.1007/s11606-020-06049-w. [PMID] 32779134.
2020
Identifying Solutions to Ambulatory Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Remuneration in Graduate Medical Education: An AAIM Position Paper
The American Journal of Medicine. 133(3):386-394 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.11.001.
2020
Oath to Self-Care and Well-Being
The American Journal of Medicine. 133(2):249-252.e1 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.10.001.
2020
When Is It Safe to See the Doctor?
Journal of general internal medicine. 35(10):3071-3072 [DOI] 10.1007/s11606-020-06034-3. [PMID] 32705469.
2019
Effect of Treating Vitamin D Deficiency in Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study.
American journal of therapeutics. 26(4):e441-e451 [DOI] 10.1097/MJT.0000000000000738. [PMID] 29419533.
2019
The State of Ambulatory Undergraduate Internal Medicine Medical Education: Results of the 2016 Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine Annual Survey.
The American journal of medicine. 132(5):652-657 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.01.030. [PMID] 30721654.
2018
A resident-driven mortality case review innovation to teach and drive system-based practice improvements in the United States.
Journal of educational evaluation for health professions. 15 [DOI] 10.3352/jeehp.2018.15.31. [PMID] 30586955.
2018
Cor Triatriatum as an Uncommon Cause of Recurrent Syncope.
Journal of general internal medicine. 33(7):1201-1202 [DOI] 10.1007/s11606-018-4429-3. [PMID] 29633128.
2018
The State of Ambulatory Undergraduate Internal Medicine Education: Results of the 2016 Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine Annual Survey
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 132(5):652-657 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.01.030.
2017
From Sea to Bloodstream: Vibrio vulnificus Sepsis.
The American journal of medicine. 130(10):1167-1169 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.07.001. [PMID] 28693913.
2017
The Challenges of Teaching Ambulatory Internal Medicine: Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Development: An AAIM/SGIM Position Paper.
The American journal of medicine. 130(1):105-110 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.09.004. [PMID] 27702571.
2016
Metabolic Impact of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Obese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.
Diabetes care. 39(4):632-8 [DOI] 10.2337/dc15-1876. [PMID] 26861926.
2016
The Challenges of Teaching Ambulatory Internal Medicine: Faculty Recruitment, Retention, And Development. An AAIM/SGIM Position Paper
The American journal of medicine. 130(1):105-110
2015
Relationship of Vitamin D With Insulin Resistance and Disease Severity in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
. 62(2):405-411
2015
Relationship of vitamin D with insulin resistance and disease severity in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
Journal of hepatology. 62(2):405-11 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.08.040. [PMID] 25195551.
2015
Solutions to common problems in training learners in general internal medicine ambulatory settings.
The American journal of medicine. 128(10):1152-7 [DOI] 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.05.023. [PMID] 26071822.
2014
Improving residents’ clinical approach to obesity: impact of a multidisciplinary didactic curriculum.
Postgraduate medical journal. 90(1069):630-7 [DOI] 10.1136/postgradmedj-2014-132821. [PMID] 25214540.
2014
Unilateral lower extremity swelling as a rare presentation of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
BMJ case reports. 2014 [DOI] 10.1136/bcr-2013-202424. [PMID] 24431414.
2013
Effect of a multidisciplinary-assisted resident diabetes clinic on resident knowledge and patient outcomes.
Journal of graduate medical education. 5(1):145-9 [DOI] 10.4300/JGME-D-12-00065.1. [PMID] 24404243.
2013
Effect of a multidisciplinary-assisted resident diabetes clinic on resident knowledge and patient outcomes.
. 5(1)
2013
Recent and emerging therapeutic medications in type 2 diabetes mellitus: incretin-based, Pramlintide, Colesevelam, SGLT2 Inhibitors, Tagatose, Succinobucol.
American journal of therapeutics. 20(6):638-53 [DOI] 10.1097/MJT.0b013e3181ec9eb2. [PMID] 20838206.
2013
The Malignant Truth About Hypercalcemia
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 28(1)
2012
Impact of Obesity Training On Resident Knowledge and Perceptions
Journal of Investigative Medicine. 60
2011
A Swollen Heart in Pregnancy
Journal of Medical Case Reports. [DOI] 10.4021/jmc375w.
2011
Blockade of NADPH oxidase restores vasoreparative function in diabetic CD34+ cells.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science. 52(8):5093-104 [DOI] 10.1167/iovs.10-70911. [PMID] 21676908.
2011
Carvedilol reduces aortic wave reflection and improves left ventricular/vascular coupling: a comparison with atenolol (CENTRAL Study).
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 13(12):917-24 [DOI] 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2011.00549.x. [PMID] 22142351.
2011
Epstein-Barr Virus–Induced Adrenal Insufficiency, Cardiac Tamponade, and Pleural Effusions
. 28(7)
2010
Anti-glycation and anti-albuminuric effects of GLY-230 in human diabetes.
American journal of nephrology. 31(2):110-6 [DOI] 10.1159/000259897. [PMID] 19923796.
2010
Impact of Lifestyle Intervention On Diabesity
Diabetes, obesity & metabolism. 12:71-72
2001
Characterization of a fucose-binding protein from bull sperm and seminal plasma that may be responsible for formation of the oviductal sperm reservoir.
Biology of reproduction. 64(6):1806-11 [PMID] 11369612.
1998
Bull sperm binding to oviductal epithelium is mediated by a Ca2+-dependent lectin on sperm that recognizes Lewis-a trisaccharide.
Biology of Reproduction. 59(1)
1997
Bovine sperm binding to oviductal epithelium involves fucose recognition.
Biology of reproduction. 56(5):1198-204 [PMID] 9160719.

Grants

May 2020 ACTIVE
Role of Screening and Early Intervention in Primary Care with Low-Dose Pioglitazone for Patients with T2DM and NASH
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NIDDK
Sep 2017 ACTIVE
Women's Ischemia Trial to Reduce Events in Non-Obstructive CAD (WARRIOR)
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: US ARMY MED RES ACQUISITION
May 2016 – Nov 2017
A TRIAL COMPARING CARDIOVASCULAR SAFETY OF INSULIN DEGLUDEC VERSUS INSUIN GLARGINE IN SUBJECTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES AT
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NOVO NORDISK
Sep 2014 ACTIVE
214 OPERATING ACCOUNT
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: UNIV OF FLORIDA
Nov 2013 – Nov 2016
A trial comparing cardiovascular safety of insulin degludec versus insulin glargine in subjects with type 2 diabetes at high risk of cardiovascular events
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NOVO NORDISK
Jul 2013 – May 2019
Angiotensin and neuroimmune activation in hypertension
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NHLBI

Education

Medical Degree
2005 · SUNY University
Residency – Internal Medicine
2005 · University of Florida
Bachelor's Degree
1995 · Cornell University

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 265-0239
Emails:
Business:
lomc@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO BOX 103204
DEPT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
GAINESVILLE FL 326100277
Business Street:
1600 SW ARCHER RD
GAINESVILLE FL 32610